Alice Herz Sommer isn’t an alum – in fact, she has probably never set foot in New Hampshire. But her story is an incredible inspiration and testimony to the power of the human spirit to triumph, forgive, and soar—and to the spiritual power of music. She turns 107 this month and is the oldest living Holocaust survivor, having lived through the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Watch this video clip from the new documentary on her, Alice, Dancing under the Gallows. The world needs more special souls like Ms. Sommer.

Her story fits perfectly with this year’s Kristallnacht Remembrance: Remember, Create, Live. Encountering the Holocaust through the Arts, which will feature the Apple Hill String Quartet performing works of Victor Ullman, composed while he was detained in Theresienstadt, where Ms. Sommer was imprisoned.

Kristallnacht will be held at the Colonial Theatre in downtown Keene on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at 7 p.m.